Silence
“. . . a time to tear and a time to sew;
a time to be silent and a time to speak;” Ecclesiastes 3:7
I meditate
I am silent
I hear a whisper
How soft
How sweet
hear it
It is Peace
It is Love
It is You Beloved Lord
Mother’s Day
We celebrate Mother’s Day
It is a day of remembrance
of gratitude
We remember those long gone
those recently departed
We bless those who brought us life
continue life
We are nothing without our mothers
We are nothing with our mothers
when we do not remember them with love
with gratitude
with thanksgiving
Is thank you enough
do we owe more
can we forget
hate
ignore
if we do
we do not love God
God gave us
nurture
kindness
gentleness
love
gratitude
blessing
Mothers!
You
I rise in the morn;
your presence feeds me.
I toil at my trade;
your strength is within me.
I dine with friends;
your manifestation unifies us.
In my restful hours,
your passion consumes me.
God’s Eternal Soul
God’s Eternal Soul
Our own personal lives,
that lives with the community
and worship in our churches,
find that we can live only in the now.
All are present in our prayers.
As a congregation we pray
for the Spirit to be with us,
join our souls with Christ.
When we are in a state of grace with Christ,
our soul is translucid to God, for,
where God does his work within our soul.
God builds His home within us;
It is in the soul; and,
we must lift ourselves and join
with God to receive His glory,
His majesty, and his grace.
Our soul belongs to God
It is where He purifies us.
Love is also a Commandment
Love is also a Commandment
The blessed of life is God’s Love;
t’is a chance to live in the Divine
God’s presence is the magnificent sunrises
we experience as we awaken to
a new life each morn
and the dramatic sunsets we are
in awe of each eve.
His presence is the beautiful
music of man,
the melodic music of birds,
the fun-loving music of a baby’s laughter.
The failure of Love often brings suffering;
the failure of love brings rejection
by strangers, by the refugee,
by the sick, by oursleves.
We are all children of God
Whether we call him
God,
or Yahweh,
or Allah,
or any other thousands of names he is called.
He is the Father of us all.
When we love God
We love the stranger, and the refugee.
We love the Jew and the Muslim.
We love the sick, and we love ourselves.
The two greatest commandments
Given by Jesus is to love God, and
To love our neighbor.
Both bring the Divine to our hearts,
and this is how we pray to God.
Prepare (pray)
Prepare (pray)
“And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.” 1 John 2:28
Why do we live our lives haphazardly?
Why do we hunger for substantiality?
Why do we thirst for substance
in our old age,
be that ninety or twenty?
Why are we ageless burdens to others,
And to ourselves?
We are not burdens to God,
when we walk in His light.
We are barefoot on a surface of
His feathery grass.
Our walk is comfortable,
because we are precious to God;
we are His children;
we are His faithful.
We prepare (pray) for God,
when we hunger; when we thirst;
when we are weary in our old age;
when we are burdens.
Giving our burdens to God
and trusting in God,
our walk is comfortable.
We are God’s precious, faithful children.
We are the Light of the World
We are the Light of the World
“For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.” Ephesians 5: 8
We are all children of God.
By His Grace,
we are the light of the Lord on earth.
We are the fruit of the Lord,
therefore, we are true and right and good.
If we accept God’s light and life,
our paths before us are filled
with His goodness and light and life.
The paths of our lives cross with others
on their paths of light and life.
When we accept others as our brothers and sisters,
we grow broader and deeper in God’s love.
Jesus says in Matthew that
we are the light of the world
and by doing these many good works,
we glorify God.
Missing the Boat
Missing the Boat
Why is the church
stranded in the ocean
on a boat
without oars or a motor?
How many denominations
preach their unquestioned
message of truth that only
they can possess?
Why the division over
who is closer to Christ,
when our black brothers
and sisters are murdered –
just for being Black?
Jesus says we are all one family.
Jesus says we share God’s love equally,
but we do not follow His teachings.
He was a poor homeless person . . .
shunned and persecuted by the powerful.
The apostles were in a foundering boat,
when Jesus walked by
on the water
and questioned their lack of faith.
The symbolism is missed
by most of us:
Jesus is too all encompassing
to be confined by one tiny boat.
His presence is greater than all;
He is too all encompassing
to be confined to one church,
to be confined to one race,
to be confined to one small way of thinking.
The apostles’ boat was filled
with a tax collector,
a doubter, a traitor,
sinners all, who did not
understand His teachings.
The boat is filled with us,
all unable to understand,
unable to get along,
because we are say we are different.
We have all missed the message;
we have all missed the boat.
But all is not lost;
we can all become
the taxpayer, the doubter,
yes, and even the traitor.
They all finally understood;
yes, even the traitor.
It is not too late.
Let us open our eyes
and our hearts to the true message:
we are all one body in Christ.
Memory
“But the Comforter . . . whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you
all things, and bring all things to your remembrance . . .” John 14:26
Too soon, we face death!
Are the soon forgotten?
Are we soon forgotten?
Too soon, I fear;
they lived and they loved.
We lived, and we loved.
Is this a sufficient memory
For others, or for us?
Only God knows the answer.
We know that Love transcends life;
Love also transcends death.
Love is the bridge between
the living still and those
who have passed on.
The only survivor is their memory;
the only survivor is our memory.
The only meaning is how they loved;
the only meaning is how we loved.
Does memory mean nothing?
Trust
Trust
“In God, whose word I praise; in God I trust and am not afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?” Psalm 56:4
In my house there is a special room;
its name is trust.
It has many windows and doors,
allowing many people to enter.
Those who enter this room change . . .
forever.
Those who do not enter
spurn this room, for
a lack of faith disappoints them . . .
always,
and petrifies them . . .
always.
When opinions enter this room,
they decompose.
Ideas of faith are strengthened here;
Truth takes the prize, for
God blesses all true ideas;
Trust is their name.
Only the faithful remain!
Yet all are loved!
Meditating to Heal 